{ Management Team }

Shawn Powers

Shawn is a Policy Manager at the Abdul
Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL),
where he manages the Education and Labor
Markets programs. He has conducted research
and advocacy on programs to fight poverty in
a variety of settings, including as a
Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines, an
Emerson National Hunger Fellow, and Director
of Advocacy at Food Bank of Alaska. Shawn is
a graduate of Williams College, the
University of Cambridge, and the Woodrow
Wilson School at Princeton University.

Aleem Ahmed

Aleem is an MBA and MPA student at MIT Sloan
and Harvard Kennedy School where he is
focusing on social entrepreneurship. Prior to
joining Sloan, Aleem worked as a management
consultant at L.E.K. and in international
development in East Africa. In Kenya, Aleem
helped Innovations for Poverty Action to
scale-up a drinking water safety technology
to reach 500,000 people. Most recently, Aleem
provided analytical and implementation
support to the Ethiopian Agricultural
Transformation Agency to provide 3 million
farmers with yield-increasing technologies.
Aleem holds a B.A. in Political Science from
Haverford College.

Lisa Chen

Lisa is Director of Measurement &
Evaluation at Bridge International Academies
and focuses on developing a foundation to
consistently and accurately measure pupil
gains and academic performance over time.
Prior to Bridge, Lisa served jointly as the
Head of Strategy & Operations and a
Research Manager at the Center for Effective
Global Action (CEGA), where she led the
centers’ development efforts and managed
impact evaluation projects related to
school-based interventions in Kenya.

Tawfiq Dahdah

Tawfiq is a strategy consultant working at Bain & Company’s Boston
office. Prior to joining Bain, Tawfiq completed his mechanical engineering masters
degree at MIT. His research, as part of MIT’s Center for Clean Energy and Clean
Water, aimed at identifying novel desalination technologies to reduce the water
shortage afflicting many parts of the world, especially Africa. As part of his
undergraduate studies at Beirut, Tawfiq worked on a project sponsored by World Health
Organization, which was ultimately successful at banning indoor smoking in Lebanon.

Rae Dong

Rae graduated from Duke University with
a degree in Philosophy, concentrating in
medical ethics, and a minor in Economics. At
Duke, Rae was heavily involved with the Kenan
Institute for Ethics, an on campus “think and
do tank,” and also spent a summer at a health
care NGO in New Delhi, India. Previously a
management consultant with Bain & Company
in Boston, Rae is currently a consultant to
global health programs at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.

Leah Horgan

Leah is currently working towards her
MFA in the MDP Field Program at Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, CA. She
previously worked as Design and
Communications Manager at MIT's Abdul Latif
Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and
currently assists with TAMTAM's design and
communications needs.

Radhika Jain

Radhika grew up in the foothills of the
Himalayas, studied and worked in the US, and
moved to Tanzania and then Rwanda to work on
HIV/AIDS projects with the Elizabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Clinton
Foundation. With the Jameel Poverty Action
Lab (J-PAL), she spent 15 months roaming
rural Bihar by motorcycle and crowded train
to launch a 6000 household anemia study, and
then moved to Delhi to manage several health
and education research projects. She is now
studying health policy and development at
Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Maha Malik

Maha graduated from Dartmouth College
where she was an Economics major and
Government minor. Her junior year at
Dartmouth, Maha served as the co-Director for
the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health.
Maha has previously worked with the United
Nations Development Program on two projects
in Islamabad, Pakistan. Currently, Maha is an
Associate Consultant at Bain & Company at
the firm’s Boston office.

Adina Rom

Adina is studying international
development at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Previously she was a Research Associate at
the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
at UC Berkeley and Director of Operations at
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in
Kenya. She studied Political Science and
International Relations at the University of
Geneva and also worked for the Swiss mission
to the United Nations and Human Rights Watch
before.

Jingying Yang

Jingying graduated from Yale University in
2011 with a degree in Biology. She has
previously worked at the International Herald
Tribune in Paris as the Special Reports
Assistant on topics ranging from Energy,
Water Sustainability, and Education. She also
worked with the Joint US China Collaboration
on Clean Energy in Shanghai on their
initiative to train government officials on
bringing green initiatives to cities all over
China. She currently works at Bain and
company in Boston.

Surili Sheth

Surili is an MPA/ID student studying development
economics and policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
She previously worked as Associate with the
Affordable Housing Institute, a global nonprofit
consultancy based on Boston, and as Research Associate
with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab in Andhra Pradesh,
managing a large-scale household survey to evaluate a
state welfare payment system linked with biometrics.
She is interested in field research, open data, and
behavioral economics, and their policy applications
to service delivery, governance and health issues.

Lynette Bye

Lynette is an undergraduate at Harvard University studying
psychology with interests in social, decision-making, and positive
psychology. She manages the startup Enduring Legacy Publishers,
and is a fellow with the Harvard Effective Altruism group interested
in applying evidence and reason to more effectively do good in the
world. She previously interned doing website analysis and
communication strategy for Wingu, a nonprofit technology consulting
firm in Argentina.

{ Board of Directors }

Dina Pomeranz

Dina is an assistant professor at
the Harvard Business School, where she
conducts research in development economics
including large-scale randomized field
experiments. Previously, she served as a
postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Abdul Latif
Jameel Poverty Action Lab. She has Ph.D. in
economics from Harvard University and BA and
MA degrees in international relations from
the Graduate Institute of International
Studies in Geneva.

Esther Wang

Esther graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania with degrees in International
Studies and Business. Esther joined the
TAMTAM team during her graduate studies at
Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy
School. Esther has worked in management
consulting with Bain & Company and
co-launched Shokay, a social enterprise in
China. She also worked in Swaziland and
Uganda in international development. Esther
currently works for IDinsight, an
organization that helps managers make
evidence-based decisions and have large-scale
impact at non-profits, foundations and
government organizations.

Paul Wang

Paul is a graduate of the Harvard Business
School and Harvard Kennedy schools. Paul has
previously worked in Kenya, Uganda, South
Africa and Swaziland for TechnoServe,
McKinsey and Company and MIT’s Abdul Latif
Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Paul currently
works for IDinsight, an organization that
helps managers make evidence-based decisions
and have large-scale impact at non-profits,
foundations and government organizations.